These data suggest that the DNA repair pathway most inhibited by Tax is base-excision repair of oxidative damage. To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating inhibition of DNA repair by any retrovirus and suggests that this inhibition of DNA repair may contribute to the mechanism of cell transformation by the HTLV/BLV group of viruses.
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